Last years Christmas Day!!

Here are some of my favourite photo's from last year's Christmas Day! Enjoy... 

His mountain of presents (they weren't all for Jackson, ours were in the pile as well by the way!).

We loved his personalised stocking from his Thea (Aunty).

Opening all of his presents - the Trike was the best one.

We spent Christmas at my mums with Chris' family joining us as well. 

Jackson pretty much ate the same amount as us adults!!!!

Trying out his new toys! 

Jackson and Mama photo.

More toys!!!!

This is from Boxing Day but we forgot to get a family one on Christmas day! 

We are so looking forward to the big day tomorrow! Eeeek!

Love Sophia xxx

My Day in Photo's

Today, like most mornings, I started with a nice coffee. Jackson had an epic lie-in until 8:45am and I pretty much slept until then too - lazy!!!!!

By 10am, I had already made dinner for the evening. Gigi was coming around for the afternoon, so I thought it would be a good idea to get it ready early. All I had left to do was to add the Kidney Beans and Spinach just before serving.

One of the little ones that I look after came around to say goodbye today, as I will be on Maternity Leave after Christmas. They gave me these gorgeous flowers with a card that made me cry! 

I went out for lunch with my sister, Gigi and cousins, which I forgot to take a picture of (sorry)! Then, on the way home, I got the car cleaned, which Jackson loved but it was quite busy and took a little while, so he eventually fell asleep. 

The speed and the amount of people that they have cleaning the car always amazes me!  

When we got home, we took the doggies on a nice little walk.

Jackson absolutely loves his Gigi, he told her where to sit and kept showing her all of his toys. 

Gigi brought him a new toy - a doggie that has a flashing hat and moves and barks. He cried when he had to leave it to go for a bath. 

After his bath with Dada, he came down and gave Gigi a massive cuddle, it must have been too long with out her! Ha! 

We wrapped up to stay warm and went to see a local house that has the most amazing Christmas lights, all synchronised to music. They do it every year for charity (there are some incredible people around). Watching all of the children running and playing in the front garden was really lovely. 

It was such a lovely day and we are so lucky to have Jackson's Gigi over from Greece for Christmas! 

Love Sophia xxx

Christmas Pudding Rice Krispie Cakes

This is a fun recipe that you could make with your children and one that I made recently to take around to a friends house for a pre-christmas dinner (you may have heard about this in one of my previous blogs). It's a twist on the classic Rice Krispie Cakes but with a Christmas theme! 

Ingredients: 

50g Rice Krispies

30g Raisins (chopped)

50g Butter

100g Milk Chocolate

2tbsp Crunchy Peanut Butter

30g Mini Marsh Mellows (I couldn't find mini ones, so chopped some up instead)

80g White Chocolate

'Holly Leaves' sprinkles

Firstly, you mix the raisins and the Rice Krispies together.

Next, put the other ingredients (minus the White Chocolate and the Sprinkles) into a pan.  

Melt it all together on a low heat. The marsh mellow wont completely melt but that is fine. 

Then mix the Rice Krispies well into the mixture.

The recipe then calls for an egg cup to make the 'Christmas Pudding' shape - I didn't have one, so I just used a few mini cup cake cases and then a couple of larger ones. 

Then you let them cool for a while in the fridge and melt the White Chocolate over the top. 

Once cooled, I took the cup cake cases off. 

Then you divide the melted White Chocolate over all of the 'Christmas Puddings'.

Finally, it's on to the fiddly bit - adding the sprinkles! 

They went down a treat at the dinner party and Jackson loved them too. 

Let me know if you make them. 

Love Sophia xxx

Christmas Cards

We have done our usual photo Christmas card with Jackson and the doggies this year. However, as well as this, I thought it would be nice if Jackson and I made our own cards too, to go with the Ginger Bread Men decorations we have already made for gifts to our family. These home-made cards would be just for a few people, same as the decorations because otherwise we would be making them until after Christmas! 

I told Jackson that I would be painting the bottom of his foot and he got quite excited! 

I really struggled to find brown paint, so I just mixed red and green to make a shade of brown. I covered his whole foot in the paint. 

Then we printed it to the card. 

After it had dried, we stuck on some googely eyes and made a glitter nose. I did the antlers myself (impressive, I know!).

I was so pleased with how they turned out, what do you all think?

Love Sophia xxx

A Week in Photo's

I have put together my week in photos for you, including some really Christmassy days and some general, everyday-life days too. Enjoy... 

Monday 

Jackson spent his first night in his new room last night. He slept in until 8:30am, which he hasn't done in ages!!! Typically, it was when I was working though, so I had been up since 6:30am anyway!

Tuesday 

One of our dogs needs to get regular hair cuts, as his hair grows really long and really quickly, so today he went in for his Christmas hair-do (the next one we have booked is potentially just after baby no. 2 is here, so we will see if it has to be rescheduled!!!). Look how cute he is, he also made it onto the groomer's facebook page, proper fashion pooch!

Wednesday 

This is a snippet of what my day involved; Jackson refusing to do anything I asked him to do. I was trying to get him dressed when I took this photo, so he ran and hid inbetween the cot and the wardrobe!! Cheeky Monkey!

Thursday 

We went over to Jackson's cousin's house and his Aunty Claire cooked them both some lovely dinner. It's always so mad when they get together but good fun!!

Friday 

Chris had the day off so we went up to London and had a look at some of the sights. Jackson loved walking around Winter Wonderland!

Saturday 

Jackson and I had a stay at home day today. In the evening, Chris and I had a Christmas themed night, we watched Elf and wrote our Christmas cards.

Sunday 

We had a busy day racing around seeing different people but we did manage to buy a Christmas tree. We didn't get time to decorate it but it's up at least!

Love Sophia xxx